• Public Function: The Government will today approve the salary increase to officials to try to reach the January payroll

The Government has approved today in the Council of Ministers the salary increase of the officials, so that Pedro Sánchez exploits the last legacy of Cristóbal Montoro. The former Minister of Finance and Public Administration was responsible for signing the multi-year agreement on public salaries and, although the Socialist Executive has made the increase his own, the reality is that this improvement is still a result of the negotiations of the Government of Mariano Rajoy .

As EL MUNDO announced yesterday, the Government has ratified that the salaries of public workers will pick up at least 2% , a figure that can rise to 2.3% if the so-called additional funds are applied. In addition, if the deficit objective is met, officials will receive an additional 0.55%, as well as another variable part depending on the growth that could raise the total improvement to 3.85%.

However, these last two improvements seem very unlikely right now, and only the part linked to the deficit could be applied in case the Government renegotiates the deficit path and applies the new objective also to this area. In any case, all these objectives and increases were, as already noted, welcomed by Montoro with the union representatives of the officials, as were the improvements of 2019 and 2018. Last year, the officials saw their salary up to 2.75% , while in 2018 the advance amounted to 1.95% .

The improvements are substantially greater than those recorded by private salaries in recent years, a reality to which unions always respond with the loss of purchasing power that officials suffered during the crisis as a result of, among other things, the reduction of salary applied by former president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero or the freezing of salaries in some of the following years.

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Public function The Government will today approve the salary increase to officials to try to reach the January payroll

BenefitsPensionistas and officials shot their purchasing power in 2019

STRUCTURAL DEFICIT The Government of Pedro Sánchez and Pablo Iglesias already clashes with the Constitution